scholarly journals The Drift in Journalism Education in India vis-à-vis New Media: Use of New Media by Administrators/ Educators in Journalism Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
Neha Jindal
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Curriculum And Pedagogy ◽  
Willingness To Adopt ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Curriculum Instruction ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices

With new media becoming the mainstay of the journalism industry, there is a change in curriculum and pedagogy in journalism education. Even with Web 2.0 becoming the main source of news dissemination, journalism educators will still be required to impart skills to the next generation on writing with clarity, organizing ideas cleanly and working efficiently as a team. The change will be in the methodology, and has to be accepted by the institution at the administrative level first. Since journalism education is required to develop a rational capacity in future graduates, and help them attain all skills essential to understand the media industry with regard to new media practices and changing trends, journalism administrators and educators have to be ably equipped with the skills, only then these can be delivered to the students. The study is about private and public (government) journalism schools in India and focuses on their willingness to adopt the requisite skill set and display adaptability towards using new media. It includes interviews conducted with administrators (who are also educators) in government and private journalism institutions in the country, concerning acceptance of new media and adoption in curriculum, instruction, evaluation and feedback, and arrives at results interpretatively.

Journalism Education in India: Quest for Professionalism or Incremental Responses

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Parthasarathy Bharthur
Keyword(s):  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constant Friction ◽  
Education In India ◽  
The Media ◽  
Different Levels

Journalism education in India is framed in the higher education system, comprising of programs in the universities, both government-supported and media-backed private institutions, as well as in-service and short-term courses offered by press associations and other organizations. They are offered at different levels from certificate to diploma to both undergraduates and postgraduates. Due to requirements of the media industry, there is a constant friction about the need to balance the academic and professional aspects in the curriculum. This has led to skepticism in the past about the relevance of formal journalism education. However, with globalization and growth of the media sector, there is an enhanced need for professionals. Many big media groups have launched journalism programs. Institutional and professional aspects of the programs in India and issues pertaining to curriculum, responses, and critique have been factored in this article.

scholarly journals Robots Versus Journalists: Does Journalism Have a Future?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 668-678
Author(s):  
Ludmila Salnikovа
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Career Plans ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices

The article deals with the prospects of robotization of a big part of journalists’ work that may lead to redundancies in the media industry, transformation of traditional professional skills and emergence of new standards and competencies. The topicality of the article is proved by the need to explore the new boundaries of journalism as profession. The author analyzes both types of work that can be automated, and those journalist activities where artificial intelligence cannot replace a human. The subject of the study is the data of the most recent researches, sociological surveys and statistics on transformation of the current media market and the new requirements for media-workers’ competencies in the context of the digital revolution. Basing on extensive factual material and experts’ forecasts, the author infers that it is high time for media professionals to extend the range of competencies and determine a related professional niche to secure them a job in case of redundancies caused by robotization. The original results of a sociological survey carried out at the Department of International Journalism of MGIMO University build up the scientific novelty of the article. The aim of the survey was to find out and analyze the undergraduate students’ vision of their work prospects as journalists, to correlate their career plans and employers’ demand, and to identify their readiness to adapt to the new media practices. The results of the survey bring the author to the conclusion that it is necessary to radically update the current syllabi to focus on the most recent information and communication technologies.

scholarly journals Medieøkologien i SKAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Ruth Grüters ◽  
Knut Ove Eliassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

AbstractTo understand the success of SKAM, the series’ innovative use of “social media” must be taken into consideration. The article follows two lines of argument, one diachronic, the other synchronic. The concept of remediation allows for a historical perspective that places the series in a longer tradition of “real time”-fictions and media practices that span from the epistolary novels of the 18th century by way of radio theatre and television serials to the new media of the 21st century. Framing the series within the current media ecology (marked by the connectivity logic of “social media”), the authors analyze how the choice of the blog as the drama’s media platform has formed the ways the series succeeded in affecting and mobilizing its audience. Given the long tradition of strong pedagogical premises in the teenager serials of publicly financed Norwegian television, the authors note the absence of any explicit media critical perspectives or didacticism. Nevertheless, the claim is that the media-practices of the series, as well as the actions and discourses of its followers (blogposts, facebook-groups, etc.), generate new insights and knowledge with regards to the series’ form, content, and practices.

Rethinking creativity in journalism: Implicit theories of creativity in the Finnish magazine industry

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nando Malmelin ◽  
Lotta Nivari-Lindström
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Implicit Theories ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
The Media ◽  
Magazine Industry ◽  
Media Work ◽  
Creative Media

This article explores conceptions of creativity in the media industry, specifically among professionals of journalism working in the magazine industry. It contributes to the development of the theory of creativity from a media industry perspective and produces new conceptual knowledge about creative media work. The article finds that in the magazine industry, journalistic creativity is understood as a practical and multidimensional concept that can be interpreted and applied in many different ways. The different conceptions of creativity reflect both the traditions of the journalistic profession and the challenges now faced by the media and the magazine industry. It is concluded that creative work in the magazine industry is typically goal driven, commercially minded and collaboratively oriented. Also, creative work in the magazine industry is characterized by ongoing processes of gradual reinvention. Other major creative challenges include the development of new ways of working, new media products and new commercial solutions.

scholarly journals The Media Industry’s Structural Transformation in Capitalism and the Role of the State: Media Economics in the Age of Digital Communications

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Knoche
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media System ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Media

Abstract: This paper discusses how the capitalist media industry has been structurally transformed in the age of digital communications. It takes an approach that is grounded in the Marxian critique of the political economy of the media. It draws a distinction between media capital, media-oriented capital, media infrastructure capital and media-external capital as the forms of capital in the media industry. The article identifies four capital strategies that media capital tends to use in order to try to maximise profits: a) The substitution of “old” by “new” media technology, b) the introduction of new transmission channels for “old” media products, c) the definition of new property rights for media sectors and networks, d) the reduction of production and transaction costs. The drive to profit maximization is at the heart of the capitalist media industry’s structural transformation. This work also discusses the tendency to the universalization of the media system in the digital age and the economic contradictions arising from it. It identifies activity fields of the media industry’s structural transformation and shows how the concentration of the capitalist media markets is an essential, contradictory and inherent feature of the capitalist media system and its structural transformation. The paper identifies six causes of why capital seeks to employ capital strategies that result in the media industry’s structural transformation. They include market saturation, overaccumulation, the tendency of the profit rate to fall, capital-concentration, competition pressure, and advertising. The paper finally discusses the role of the state as an agent of capital in general and media capital in particular. It discusses the role of the state in privatisations, neoliberal deregulation, the formation of national competitive states, and various benefits that the state provides for media capital. This contribution shows that capital and capitalism are the main structural transformers of the media and communications system. For understanding these transformations, we need an approach that is grounded in Marx’s critique of the political economy.Translation from German: Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval

scholarly journals The “Crisis” and “Opportunity” of the Hosts in the New Media Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. p77
Author(s):  
Wenjing Hu ◽  
Fansheng Cao
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Emerging Media ◽  
Continuous Progress ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times

Along with the continuous progress of science and technology, in recent years, the improvement and optimization of the structure of the media and the rapid development of the network are promoting continuous changes in the media environment. New media has penetrated into people’s daily life and become an integral part of the whole social environment. As an indispensable component of the media industry, the host industry is facing challenges from many aspects in the new media environment, which requires the announcers and hosts to give full play to their subjective initiative, finding the “opportunity” in the “crisis”, keeping up with the pace of the times, embracing the emerging media, and grasping the needs of the audience, to produce high-quality content, so as to transform “crisis” into “opportunity”.

Media discourse, sport and the nation: narratives and counter-narratives in the digital age

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 932-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Mauro
Keyword(s):  
Media Industry ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Transnational Media ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
International Sport

Throughout the 20th century, the growth of international sport events as media spectacles has provided one of the most powerful tools for the projection of national identities. Traditional media, such as newspapers and private and public broadcasters, have been instrumental in this process. Media discourses around sporting events have historically tended to legitimise exclusionary versions of the idea of the nation, reproducing hegemonic gender divisions and marginalising ethnic minorities and immigrants. At the same time, sport is also a contested vehicle for nation-building, providing to some degree opportunities for the expression of different versions of the idea of the nation. The deep changes in the media industry, and particularly the emergence and success among young people of interactive and transnational media, open the way for counter-narratives and alternative media discourses. For example, sport celebrities can use social media to expose and criticise the racialisation of immigrants in sport and beyond. But can the millions who follow them on Instagram or Twitter be counted as a ‘public’?

scholarly journals Local Newspaper Strategy to Survive in the Digital Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendra Alfani
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times ◽  
Communication And Information Technology

The development of communication and information technology that gave birth to the digital era has made the competition for the mass media industry increasingly competitive. This condition requires conventional mass media, especially local newspapers to carry out special strategies focused on efforts to transform their activities in accordance with the demands of the times, so as not to get further behind with new media that use the internet and digital technology. The Daily OKU Ekspres and OKU Timur Pos, as conventional local newspapers, are confronted with this reality. Surrender or immediately develop a strategy for transformation and change, in order to remain able to compete in the media industry. This study uses a qualitative method, where data analysis is displayed descriptively. The results showed that the two newspapers systematically implemented four strategies to face competition with online media, namely; strengthen local content with investigative reports, media convergence, penetration in social media networks and carry out regular and incidental off-air activities. In the context of this strategy choice, the two newspapers are able to capitalize on the vulnerability of online media to strengthen their existence.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Lies, media integrity and the new digital environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Mainstream Media

Book reviews of: Stop Press: The Last Days of Newspapers, by Rachel Buchanan. Melbourne: Scribe, 2013. 169pp. ISBN 9781922070579; The New Front Page: New Media and The Rise of the Audience, by Tim Dunlop. Melbourne: Scribe, 2013. 258pp. ISBN 9781922070548Stop Press: The Last Days of Newspapers: When Rachel Buchanan penned a commissioned article entitled ‘From the classroom to the scrapheap’ for The Age last September, she railed against Australian journalism schools, in particular, against an alleged ‘lie’ and ‘little integrity’ of journalism education. ‘Between 2002 and 2012, enrolments in journalism degrees almost doubled,’ she noted about what was troubling her across the Tasman. ‘We now have the bizarre situation where there are more people studying journalism than there are working journalists.’ The New Front Page: New Media  and the Rise of the Audience: The first in the series was The New Front Page: New Media  and the Rise of the Audience, by political blogger pioneer Dr Tim Dunlop, who tackles the reasons why the mainstream media industry in Australia and New Zealand have been so slow to embrace digital media and innovative 'citizen journalism' apporaches.

scholarly journals Media in Post-Communist Mongolia

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poul Erik Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Media

Abstract The introduction of a liberal media model built on freedom of expression, non-regulation, and free market in Post-Communist Mongolia has lead to a plethora of new media outlets. In a context of external pluralism, the media are key players in dramatic political, social, and cultural changes in Mongolian society. However, due to violations of media freedom, lack of ethical standards as well as market failures in a media market marred with clientelism, the Mongolian media have neither lived up to the ideals of liberal media theory nor been driving forces in the ongoing democratization process. Instead, private and public media, in an unholy alliance, appear more like a lapdog in the service of the political and financial establishment than like a watchdog.

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